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August 2008

Learn Sign Language Free

August 25, 2008

Teach your kids sign language for free! Or just learn sign language yourself! This site actually shows videos of people doing the signs. Super easy to learn, and best of all, it’s FREE! So save your money and don’t buy the signing videos or DVD’s – just use this site instead! American Sign Language Browser [...]

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DIY tutorial to make your own laundry soap and save big money

August 25, 2008

This is a super easy tutorial on how to make your own laundry soap. I made another batch last night and it literally took me all of 10 minutes of work for a 5 gallon batch (including taking pictures). To mix it up I used my drill with a new clean paint mixer attachment I [...]

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New review: Foodsaver vacuum system (new model) : Saving money using a Foodsaver

August 24, 2008

Want more freebies, money saving tips, and ways to make money online? Be sure to subscribe to our free blog updates and follow us on Twitter! The good folks at Foodsaver were upset that I had a poor experience with the older Foodsaver vacuum sealing system I had borrowed and sent me a brand new [...]

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Debt snapshot-8-24-08

August 24, 2008

After looking at our finances we decided we could send another $1200 snowflake towards the truck loan since we have been really sticking to the budget and being uber-frugal lately. I decided to update our debt snapshot (above) which still shows us at $116775 in debts owing. *sigh*. It’s almost kind of sad that an [...]

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Proof of payment : Legitimate paid surveys: Survey money in the mail

August 24, 2008

A couple of my checks came from July’s earnings in a couple of my survey accounts. Opinion outpost – 6.50Cash Crate – 15.44My Survey – 10.00 Still missing is the 7.50 from survey savvy. All in all it netted about an extra $40.00 for the month of July for just taking a couple minutes a [...]

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Save big money, air dry your laundry

August 23, 2008

Update (8/18/2009): My air drying rack has been featured in HGTV.ca’s blog. Check it out here: LINK TO HGTV.CA This is a project I have been thinking of doing for a while in my head. When we first got married some 9 years ago we never had a dryer and just used to hang our [...]

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The secret to using Vonage and saving thousands of dollars on your phone bill

August 22, 2008

First of all let me say that we have had Vonage now since Jan, 2006 and have been nothing but impressed. There has been the odd glitch of a delay in the line, but that was early on and only in about 1 in 100 calls, haven’t had that problem in a year or so. [...]

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Look what showed up on my doorstep: FREE Foodsaver vacuum packaging system:

August 21, 2008

A FREE Foodsaver V2060 vacuum sealing system (MSRP 100 bucks). Yup, a couple days ago I posted about my 3 months of experience with the Foodsaver system I had borrowed and how I wasn’t impressed… see link here for past post. I got an email two days ago from the PR people that work with [...]

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How eating baked beans saves me over 1500 dollars a year

August 21, 2008

Just thought I would share my experiences with brown baggin’ it today since I was having this discussion with a co-worker today. When I worked in Dallas I used to eat out every day for lunch, sometimes fast food which would usually cost about 6-10 dollars depending on the place or at a sit down [...]

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Home made Fabreeze Recipe

August 20, 2008

As soon as I run out of Fabreeze (should be any day now) I am going to whip up a batch of this and try it out. Sounds so simple and cheap. Home Made Fabreeze Recipe: 1/4 cup fabric softener 2 cups water 2 tbsp baking soda Mix up and spritz. I will let you [...]

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Legit extra income super-post

August 16, 2008

Here are some one time survey things I found: ********** Here is a survey that pays up to 135 dollars for people with chronic back pain. This is a legitimately funded survey, only for people with chronic back pain-> LINK HERE ********** Here is a survey that pays up to 100 dollars for people with [...]

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We are officially going to do it…

August 16, 2008

As some of you may recall I blogged about the living on a single income idea a couple weeks ago in a previous post (here). Thank you to all who commented, your words of encouragement helped us dearly. Yup, momma made up her mind and turned in her notice this last week. She has yet [...]

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Great blog for source of freebies and samples

August 15, 2008

Here is a great resource I came across, it is a blog just about freebies and samples. SWEET! http://www.frugalfreebiesanddeals.com/

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Some awesome debt free inspiration

August 15, 2008

Just wanted to share a post from one of my favorite blogs, no credit needed, who posted last week about 10 things that rock about being debt free. I found his article to be very inspiring and wanted to share to motivate you all as well. The most encouraging phrase to me is “how awesome [...]

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HELP WANTED

August 14, 2008

Okay all you readers out there. One of the things I have been doing a fair amount of is bulk cooking. So far I have been freezing everything and it works well. But I want to get into canning as well, but I have no idea really what I am doing other than playing around [...]

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Update: Paid surveys

August 14, 2008

PLEASE NOTE THIS POST IS FROM 2008. For current survey site info, click here Just FYI I have been working on those paid surveys I have in my linked sidebar and thought you all might want an update of how they have been paying out. Cash Crate: LINK TO CASH CRATE So far I got [...]

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Long term update: Foodsaver Vacuum Machine

August 14, 2008

Welp, I figured I would post an update to the original post of my experience to the foodsaver machine since it was of interest to myself and others. See post here: Link A couple months ago wrote about this as I thought that it had good potential for bulk cooking and food storage and decided [...]

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WOOHOO! Extra loan payment

August 11, 2008

In looking at our checkbook again, we realized that our frugal living, the last of our ebay sales and a chunk of overtime added up to an amount that we rounded up to 1300 dollars for a snowflake towards our truck payment. This is on top of the debt snowball we are doing where we [...]

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